Some Recent Debates About Evolution

The details of
evolutionary theory are hotly debated. But it has developed from Darwins
original proposal into a theory of enormous explanatory power - it fits to a
very marked degree Barbours criteria for a successful scientific theory:
agreement with data, coherence, scope and fertility.It is for this reason that we do not consider here schemes which seek an
outline some alternative science in order to defend a literalist reading of
Scripture.